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Author: jsiek

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   the fundamental tools of compiler construction: \emph{abstract
     syntax trees} and \emph{recursive functions}. 
 {\if\edition\pythonEd
-\item In Chapter~\ref{ch:parsing-Lvar} we learn how to use a parser
-  generator to create a parser for the language of integer arithmetic
-  and local variables.
-\fi}  
+\item In Chapter~\ref{ch:parsing-Lvar} we learn how to use the Lark
+  parser generator to create a parser for the language of integer
+  arithmetic and local variables. We learn about the parsing
+  algorithms inside Lark, including Earley and LALR(1).
+%
+\fi}
 \item In Chapter~\ref{ch:register-allocation-Lvar} we apply
   \emph{graph coloring} to assign variables to machine registers.
 \item Chapter~\ref{ch:Lif} adds conditional expressions, which